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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, my group would like to congratulate both rapporteurs and vote in favour of their reports. As the Chairman of the Committee on Budgets, Terry Wynn, has said, our group also wants very specific budgetary guidelines and not a shopping list. The guidelines are a political message which we send to the Commission and the Council regarding the form we want the budget to take; the more specific the message is, the more chance there is of it being understood. For next year, the situation of categories 3, 4 and 5 is very worrying; we have already mentioned it: we are very close to the upper limit and in category 5 we are really above it. My group still defends the Berlin financial perspectives, but we accept the strictness of the figures, especially those referring to enlargement. Therefore, the Costa Neves report on the 2002 budget proposed real alternatives, in particular an improvement in the quality of budgetary execution both in the Commission and in the Member States, and we want to see results this year. Furthermore, we must stress that there is a lack of a genuine spirit of interinstitutional cooperation in the budgetary field. The budgetary procedure should not be a game in which some institutions seek to gain power at the expense of others. We will not achieve anything that way. The financial Regulation or the response to Parliament’s demand that the legislative and budgetary procedures be updated are two clear examples of the fact that interinstitutional cooperation is still unsatisfactory. We expect a more positive response from the Commission and, in particular, the Council, in those two areas which are so important to our group and to the whole of Parliament. I would like to end by mentioning an example of the opposite: the good example of interinstitutional cooperation provided by the funding of the Convention’s budget, on which the three institutions have come to an agreement in order to move ahead without conflict."@en1

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